Re: Using Windmill to drain land........

Posted by davpal on April 06, 2006 at 21:31:53 from (216.93.96.46):

In Reply to: Re: Using Windmill to drain land........ posted by oldfarmtractor on April 06, 2006 at 13:23:30:

Actually I am not talking about "draining a wetland" I am talking about tiling farm ground that we bought that is wet like everybody else does. We do own 27 acres of wetlands so I know how they operate. This is not the field I am talking about. It is illegal to drain them. I just want to have some tile so the land has the ability to grow the crops it could if it were properly tiled. We have pumps all over this area but most of them are electric and dump into a ditch near the land. I would just be using wind instead of electric or diesel power. We are actually pretty protective of the natural areas of our land. The kind of guys you like to see buy it so it stays kind of natural for a whole nother generation. Besides, a farmer should have the right to make his ground better. There are people putting tile in all over the country every day so why can't I? Too many people in Lansing are making decisions for farmers and basically driving them out of business. They don't seem to have a problem though when some dipshit comes along and clears a 100 acre woods (habitat) and puts up another walmart or Meijers, or a ridiculous subdivision with another 1000 acres of concrete and then wants a guy like me to keep everything natural so I can soak up all the rainwater for the whole county because they poured concrete on the rest of it! We bought the land to protect it from just that. I hate sprawl and the people that are creating it. We own two farms with a lot of road frontage and I can honestly say nobody is going to be buying any lots off us. Dad likes keeping stuff the same too. Lets put it this way, I would have to be pretty hungry to sell any lots. We have a deer, turky haven out here and that is the way it is going to stay. Besides, I think deer would like the windmill!

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